sea-pigeonn.
1. A name given (locally) to various birds, as the rock-dove, Columba livia, the black guillemot, Uria grylle, the grey kittiwake, Larus canus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > cepphus grylle (black guillemot)
sea-pigeon1620
sea turtle-dove1676
Greenland-dove1678
Greenland dove1678
sea-turtle1678
diving-pigeon1694
pigeon diver1694
scraber1698
puffineta1705
Greenland turtle?1787
tinkershere1799
dovekie1819
the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus canus (common gull)
meweOE
larea1425
sea-mawc1425
seamewc1430
mow1440
maw?a1513
sea-cob1530
camose1542
seagull1542
cob1574
mevy1616
sea-pigeon1620
tarrock1674
sea-mall1676
sea-moit1681
gor1697
seed bird1791
the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [noun] > family Columbidae > genus Columba > columba livia (rock-dove)
rock dove1610
rock pigeon1611
sea-pigeon1620
blue pigeon1676
rockier1780
rocker1802
biset1834
rock1854
sod1885
tin-rock1892
1620 J. Mason New-found-land in Mem. (1887) 151 The sea fowles are gulles, sea pigeons.
1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 9 A Sea-Pidgeon of Green-land.
1767 tr. D. Cranz Hist. Greenland I. 84 The sea-pidgeon..is like the willock in almost every thing, except its being less.
1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 23 Sea pigeon. (Columba littoralis.)
1819 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 24 It occurs in abundance in New Guinea and Java; by the natives of the latter, it is distinguished by the name of the Sea Pigeon.
1861 Coues in Proc. Philad. Acad. 256 They [Black Guillemots] are universally known to the natives and fishermen [of Labrador] as ‘Sea-pigeons’.
1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 285 The Grey Kittiwake (Larus canus) is often called the Sea Pigeon.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 168 Rock Dove (Columba livia)... Sea pigeon (Ireland).
2. U.S. A large green sea-slug.
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1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 169 One of the sea-slugs, a great green creature, commonly known on the [Florida] reef as the sea-pigeon.
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